Daniel Shore Drops for Youth 2019

I'm fortunate to be on the Board of the Graeme Dingle Foundation Waikato and to be part of an organisation that is changing the lives of youth in the Waikato.

The Graeme Dingle Foundation run school-based programmes working alongside young people in our most vulnerable communities. The proven programmes are sequenced to create a positive vehicle for change for young people aged 5 to 18 years old.

This is what they call the 'Transformational Journey' – a journey that helps our young people become more confident and resilient, find purpose and direction to achieve success.

• Kiwi Can: Focused on building life skills and teaching key values such as integrity and respect in years 1-7 https://dinglefoundation.org.nz/kiwi-can/

• Stars: A peer mentoring programme for year 9 students to aid the transition to secondary school https://dinglefoundation.org.nz/stars/

• Career Navigator: Helping secondary students find career pathways https://dinglefoundation.org.nz/career-navigator/

Recent highlights for us are that we’re proud to have been chosen as the official charity of New Zealand Rugby and the value of our programmes have been independently verified as having an economic benefit of $7.80 for every $1 invested.

All proceeds will go towards the two school-based programmes running in Waikato - Kiwi Can, Stars and Career Navigator